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[JennS]

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A ceramic heat emitter (CHE) screws into a light socket like a bulb but produces heat without light, directed down like a spot lamp bulb. You can get them in various wattages like a light bulb. The chicks really seem to like them!

CHEs are a lot more expensive than a regular light bulb (typically $25-30), but they last a LONG time. You can buy them in any pet store with a reptile section.

Jennifer

 

[Imp]

Quote: Finches have to be hand fed and even then rarely survive, they aren't like chickens that can take care of themselves right away. The parents are either hatching the eggs or it isn't going to happen. I can't hand feed a baby bird.
Many years ago I had zebra finches that hatched a few eggs. Had maybe 5 total hatch. All but 1, grew to be adults. The female was an egg laying machine. 1 egg every other day for years.

 

[Greg Richardson]

Chicken feed (Yelm)

Date: 2012-10-15, 3:41PM PDT
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I have around 25 pounds of HG Layer chicken feed, soy free and corn free. I bought it last week in a 50 pound bag and a couple days later my laying hens were all killed by an animal. We're super sad and I don't want their feed to go to waste...my baby chicks aren't old enough to use it yet and I dont want it to get stale.
Its no longer in the bag, I poured it in my dry covered feed container. If you have something to put the feed in to carry it home, its free. If you need to take the can with it (which is nice and new, plastic covered trash can like container) then its $15 for the container.

Thanks!

 

[Hinotori]

Well, fall has arrived: I've soaked all the way through both of my heavy Carhardt hoodies and I came inside both times when it started really raining hard!

On the other hand, it's warm, and the soil temps are high enough that I can see spots of green in the pasture, which is grand!

Dont have to worry about soaking heavy clothes when you're outside in a tanktop and shorts. It's still warmer outside than DH likes to keep it in here.

 

[Justahannah]

Quote: Finches have to be hand fed and even then rarely survive, they aren't like chickens that can take care of themselves right away. The parents are either hatching the eggs or it isn't going to happen. I can't hand feed a baby bird.
Many years ago I had zebra finches that hatched a few eggs. Had maybe 5 total hatch. All but 1, grew to be adults. The female was an egg laying machine. 1 egg every other day for years.

Zebra finches are the broodies of the finch world, they're often used as surrogates for other small species. I had a pair when I was younger, every couple months I'd sell a batch of 6-8 "babies" back to the pet store because my cage would get overcrowded super-quick. I loved their little beep-beep noises .

 

[Slinglings]

Two of my finches are laying eggs. They are soo itty bitty, there is a dime in the picture to show their size:


I doubt that they will be hatched or that the babies will survive if they do hatch..but they're cute anyway.  

Hey the silkiebator is running ! ! ! !      

Finches have to be hand fed and even then rarely survive, they aren't like chickens that can take care of themselves right away.  The parents are either hatching the eggs or it isn't going to happen.    I can't hand feed a baby bird. 

Many years ago I had zebra finches that hatched a few eggs. Had maybe 5 total hatch. All but 1, grew to be adults. The female was an egg laying machine. 1 egg every other day for years.

Zebras (and societies) are really good parents. These eggs are from green singers and they are housed with other finches, they're being pretty mean to each other and some of the other finches.

 

[hallerlake]

Well, fall has arrived: I've soaked all the way through both of my heavy Carhardt hoodies and I came inside both times when it started really raining hard!

On the other hand, it's warm, and the soil temps are high enough that I can see spots of green in the pasture, which is grand!

All this rain makes me very happy.

 

[Slinglings]

Getting chickens and become reattached to my garden and yard this summer has totally improved my attitude toward the rain! I would normally get depressed and lazy feeling this time of year, and it lasts until march or April..but so far I'm doing OK. The dark is bothering me more than the rain.

I have gardened in the rain a couple of times this week..I got a little muddy..but so what I just need to adjust my attitude.

Part of me feels like if I expect the chickens to be out in the rain, that I should have to be out there in it with them . It's only fair. I feel bad for them.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, fall has arrived: I've soaked all the way through both of my heavy Carhardt hoodies and I came inside both times when it started really raining hard!


On the other hand, it's warm, and the soil temps are high enough that I can see spots of green in the pasture, which is grand!

Dont have to worry about soaking heavy clothes when you're outside in a tanktop and shorts. It's still warmer outside than DH likes to keep it in here. 

I am old and my bones ache when they're dry; when they're wet I grind to a halt.

Just to make sure today, which was already an overload for me, was going to be absolutely more than I could handle, my sister and nephew showed up and loaded out the pavers which were to keep the watering trough from eroding out (before we moved the watering trough) closer to where I'm going to use them (for values of "closer" which is in fact fifty feet further away but on the same level instead of five feed down and on the other side of the fence.

Hamburg roof replaced, sheep pen moved and trap rejiggered, broody pen moved and plastic rejiggered, five eggs picked up and four pens watered. Sheep fed once (going out for his evening nosh after I have a glass of water), layers given wormy treats from the compost, dining room floor mopped, one load of laundry almost done (needs taken out of dryer and put away) and am about to make a package of ground beef into burrito filling (it was supposed to be meatloaf and I have been run off my feet since it was thawed; burrito filling is about a third the prep).

OK, that's it for the week, I'm done... hah ha ha.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Well, fall has arrived: I've soaked all the way through both of my heavy Carhardt hoodies and I came inside both times when it started really raining hard!


On the other hand, it's warm, and the soil temps are high enough that I can see spots of green in the pasture, which is grand!

All this rain makes me very happy.

Thrills the cattle; I knocked apples down and they were too busy with grass to even pay attention.